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Avatar Went Hot: March 7, 2008 - 2:40 pm
Posted By: tomcritchlow 307 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.linkdiagnosis.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
A fantastic addition the linkdiagnosis plugin which now allows you to right-click a page and see when Google first found it. Essential stuff! read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 7:15 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 135 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Ann Smarty writes, "Being automatically updated once a page is changed opens up a wealth of (probably missed) opportunities. There are two handy ways I personally use to keep track of changes introduced to any webpage" read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 9:49 am
Posted By: annie7 135 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://mashable.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
A list of 13 services that will help you monitor your website read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: March 3, 2008 - 10:39 am
Posted By: SpostareDuro 314 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semclubhouse.com)
Category: Other Searching
There are 3 major parts to what a search engine does. What are some of the problems facing crawling programs? read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 19, 2008 - 2:36 pm
Posted By: planetc1 234 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Searching
Bill Slawski writes... When you search for something at a search engine, the search engine might not just try to find pages on the web which match the keywords that you searched with, but may first try to expand upon those keywords by finding simila read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 29, 2008 - 4:20 am
Posted By: Maing 134 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Searching
Meta-search engine is a web-based service that aggregates data from a number of search engines. A meta search engine doesn’t have a database of indexed pages of its own. Instead it “sends a user’s query to multiple search engines and blends the top read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 30, 2008 - 4:11 pm
Posted By: dsnyder 163 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingpilgrim.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
One of the main uses I see for FriendFeed is as a reputation monitoring and management tool.

Here are five ways to utilize the service for rep management and monitoring: read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 13, 2008 - 6:08 am
Posted By: rishilakhani 150 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoconsultants.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Pascal Casing : The first letter in the identifier and the first letter of each subsequent concatenated word are capitalized. May also be referred to as Studley Caps. e.g. PascalCasing

Edward (Pageoneresults) Runs us through Pascal Casing - we a read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 31, 2008 - 4:05 am
Posted By: janecopland 163 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Other Searching
Rand pits Cuil against today's leading search engines to determine which, overall, is the best. The results weren't as predictable as he'd thought they would be. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 19, 2008 - 6:32 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 50 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Local & Maps
Matt McGee writes, "In an effort to help make more connections and develop relationships within the local search industry, I thought it would be fun to put together a big list of people and companies with close ties to local search who are using Twi read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 23, 2008 - 7:48 am
Posted By: SpostareDuro 232 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Mobile Search
If you own a web site, or work on one, it might be time to start thinking about how your site looks on a phone, how people use your site, and how mobile search might influence whether your site will be found in searches made by people using phones. read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 23, 2008 - 1:23 pm
Posted By: Maing 199 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
The following FireFox Extensions will help you to adapt Google’s interface and results to what you need, in the most efficient manner possible, making Google even better. read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: August 28, 2008 - 11:00 am
Posted By: SiteMost 134 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Ann Smarty loves playing with visualizing tools because they allow her to see what you might have missed exploring a table or a graph. This time she has compiled the list of tools that show various outlinking tactics and characteristics. read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 29, 2008 - 7:59 am
Posted By: barnaseo 73 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo.site-reference.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Dave just launched a vertical search engine for the SEO community named "Search SEO Pros". A great time-saver and starting point! read more »
14 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 13, 2007 - 8:17 pm
Posted By: Caydel 546 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.caydel.com)
Category: Other Searching
Barry Schwartz ranks highly for 'fat hairy naked man'. I happen to rank highly for 'kill people for money'. What about the rest of you? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 27, 2008 - 5:24 pm
Posted By: SpostareDuro 316 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.prweb.com)
Category: Other Searching
Stumpedia.com - A community built and driven social search engine that relies on human participation to index, organize, and review the world wide web. It will not depend on bots, algorithms, or company insiders to make decisions on the relevance an read more »
13 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 4, 2008 - 9:19 am
Posted By: PixelBella 157 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jordankasteler.com)
Category: Local & Maps
Learn best practices for coding for local/mobile:
Doc type declaration, screen width, accessibility, device detection redirection, XML Sitemaps.

Nice job and great resource! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 16, 2008 - 9:12 am
Posted By: dailymoolah 116 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://devbasu.com)
Category: Local & Maps
Effective local business landing pages are imperative to getting good local search rankings. Dev Basu discusses 10 Best Practices for Local Biz Landing Page design that are tried and tested methods to gain great rankings. read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 17, 2007 - 5:05 pm
Posted By: dannysullivan 541 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Ask.com
Of the major search engines, Ask.com is the only one that has never had a URL submission form. Now you can finally submit your URLs through sitemaps and a pinging service. Of course, it doesn't guarantee you'll get listed. But it might make you feel read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: January 20, 2008 - 1:26 pm
Posted By: Wiep 356 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Tips & Tools
Rand gives a rough overview of the most popular toolbars on the web and their features. read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 31, 2008 - 6:56 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 162 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Ann Smarty writes, "More and more sites have fallen victim to hackers recently and some important steps should be taken to (1) secure your site and (2) monitor that your site hasn’t been hacked." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 7, 2008 - 9:00 pm
Posted By: graywolf 62 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.viralconversations.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
These new networking possibilities are what is fueling the interest in what is called word-of-mouth marketing, or viral marketing, or buzz marketing, or exponential marketing. If you are a marketer, then this has huge potential. For simplicity in th read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 8, 2008 - 12:47 pm
Posted By: chriswinfield 367 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Other Searching
"If Search Wikia ultimately does gain traction and can live up to its guiding principles, we may yet see the emergence of a truly useful alternative search service. Just don't hold your breath for that to happen any time soon." read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: March 1, 2008 - 9:13 pm
Posted By: MiriamEllis 315 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.solaswebdesign.net)
Category: Local & Maps
Andrew's past position at InsiderPages makes him a fascinating Local SEO to chat with. Read what Andrew has to say about Maps, IYP, backsplashes and more! read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 4, 2008 - 3:10 am
Posted By: toddmintz 221 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidmihm.com)
Category: Local & Maps
David Mihm's excellent analysis of the Google Local / Map Algorithm which argues in compelling fashion that citations (mentions of the business without a link) play an important role in ranking well in the Google's Local Listings. read more »
1 Comment     


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